The daily Covid-19 test positivity rate in Bangladesh on Sunday went below 3% a day after a jump on Saturday.
Bangladesh has recorded seven more deaths from Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, taking the number of total fatalities to 8,349.
The country also logged more than 543,000 coronavirus cases with 327 people having tested positive over the same period.
With this development, the number of all confirmed cases so far jumped to 543,351.
The latest figures showed an infection rate of 2.33%, according to a Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) press release.
Until Friday, the daily test-positivity remained below the 3% mark for four consecutive days.
The DGHS said a total of 14,212 samples were collected from suspected Covid-19 patients in the last 24 hours for testing at 214 authorized labs across the country and 14,036 were tested.
The overall infection rate in the country now stands at 13.76% from 3,947,673 tests conducted so far.
Meanwhile, 475 patients recovered from the contagious disease in the 24 hours, taking the total number of recoveries to 491,367.
The country's recovery rate now stands at 90.43%.
Of the seven deaths reported yesterday — all men — six were from Dhaka and one from Chittagong divisions.
All of them died while receiving treatment at hospitals.
So far, 6,321 men (75.71%) and 2,028 women (24.29%) have died of Covid-19 across the country.
The mortality rate against the total number of cases detected stands at 1.54%.
On March 8, 2020, the health authorities in Bangladesh reported the first three cases of Covid-19, a severe acute respiratory illness caused by a new coronavirus strain named Sars-CoV-2.
The novel coronavirus broke out in China's Wuhan city in late December of 2019 and quickly spread throughout the world, becoming a pandemic in less than three months.
Globally, the novel virus has infected 111,712,661 people and took lives of 2,473,549 people till Saturday afternoon, according to Worldometers.